June 2018 — December 2018
The ENBIO project, funded by Zero Waste Scotland, investigates the use of renewable energy for algal bio-production to enable new industry in rural areas and increase the strength of the rural circular economy. Scene Connect has been commissioned by ENBIO lead ALienergy to build an economic assessment tool that looks at powering Xanthella’s algae production system with community renewable energy in the Scottish highlands.
The tool will calculate the economic potential, including using grid constrained electricity surpluses, for any community in the Scottish Highlands. An algae system deployed at the Ardnamurchan Estate is analysed as a case study.